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l To all whom z' may concern UNITED sra'rns PATENT orti-rong FRANKCHENY, OF MANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT. Y

MACHINERY Fon DOUBLING, TwisrINe, AND REELING THREAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.5,328, dated October 9,V1847; Reissued April 29,

Be it known that I, FRANK CHENEY, of. Manchester, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a newl and usefulMachine for Doubling,` Twist-Q ing, and Iieeling Silk or Threads ofotherl Materials; and I do hereby declare that the: following is a full,clear, and exact den scription of t-he construction and operationl ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthisl specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of themachinery andcar after the latter has been driven out and the twistingis about to com- 1 mence. Fig. 2 is a lateral or side view of one of thebobbins.` Fig. 3 is a 'sectional View of the drawing rollersl S Fig. 1)and a loose roller C Fig. 3 laying on top? of the silk and rollers S S.Fig. 4: is a side; view of one o-f the spindles e Fig. 1 whichl ,are inthe upper part of-the car frame.-

Fig. 5 is a view of the catch on the rod, as Fig. 1, for fastening oneend of the thread.E Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the clutch shaft andits appendages. Fig. 7 is a view of thel inner face of thewheel n on theend of the shaft 0f the reel, showing the catch on its face and also thecatch wheel which is fast, to the shaft of the reel. Fig. 8 is a bottomview of the horizontal wheels under the: car, of Fig. 1, and sho-ws thearrangement of E the cords for steadying the car.

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are represented on a larger scale than the otherfigures, and Figs.- 2, 3, 4 and 5, in combination, show the manner inwhich the thread passes from the bobbins through the drawing rollersthence: through the hook on the end of the' spindle, attached to thecar, thence back to a catch hook on the bar, a Fig. 1, in the y 'y underthe drawing rollers.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

Firstlay an ordinary platform, A Fig. 1, with a rail-way similar tothose now in use for cotton mules. Construct a car with two wheels foreach rail and the car having two uprights B Fig. 1, one near each set ofwheels; between these uprights and supported by them is a drum C Fig. 1,one end of which project-s beyondthe upright and has a band wheel pFig.1 upon this extremity outside the upright. From the i `top of thecarboxprbjectshorizontallv an arm parallel to the drum C Fig. 1 with a bandwheel g Fig. 1 upon its extremity and whichv revolves'around on thisarm.

4Under the car ateach endis a horizontal wheel, m, Fig. 8, .withj adouble groove. From the front lof thejcar projects an arm having anelbow andprojecting beyond the car wheels as seen at r Fig. 1. Theuprights B spring from each end of the'car and are connected at topbytwo cross pieces D Fig. 1.

These cross piecesD have an interval between them and support twospindles e e Fig. 1 with hooks projecting from them toward the frame tohook on to the silkv to be twisted. Around each of these spindles e cand the drum C Fig. 1 is an endless cord. At each end of the railway andon the inside of it is a permanent stake driven as fu o Iig. 1 to whichthe cords, seen in'Fig.V '8,

whichkpass around the horizontalV wheels under the car are fastened,each cordv crossing diagonally from opposite sides from front to rear ofthe opposite wheels,l as from e Fig. 8 passing along the rail tothe rearof the wheel a; Fig. 8, then diagonally` across and around the front ofthe oppositeI wheel thence to the rear of the track at o, so with bothcords. Theends of the same cord thus pass to points u o diagonallyopposite at the ends of the road. At

the outer end of the rail road or extremity of the track, and on thesame yside'as that fro-rnl which the band wheel Vp of the car projects,is a vertical stationary post E Fig. 1 supporting t-wo band wheels 1 and2 Fig. 1 the one above the other, but the upper one, 1 Fig. 1, beingoutside of the other, 2, Fig. 1. j

' We will now describe the stationary frame work and machinery and thenthe operation of the. whole. At one end of the rail track, parallel toit and just outside the rails, we lay two sleepers Fig. 1 F F; from eachofl these and opposite each other spring twoV ino uprights G C, G G. Thetwouprights on the one side are connected by a cross piece II fastenedover the top of them; and so with those on the opposite side by anothercrosspiece H similar andr fastenedfin the sameV way. Two beams I', I,yat convenient distances apart, and parallel, are fastened to l thecrossk pieces H, and are at right angles n to the direction of therailroad. `Upon thev cross piece I nearest the car are spindles Y uponIwhich spools are placed and around which 'they revolve. Above andparallel tov the other cross piece I Fig. 1, are placed two rollers S SFig; 1 in the same horizontal plane supported onfseats, withsemicircular grooves cut'in them to receive the rollers, and these seatsrest upon and are firmly fastened to the top of the'frame work and nearthe extremities of the rollers: these rollers (s s Figs. land 3) areeach terminated at'thesame endby a band wheel (Z Z Fig. 1) around bothof which van endless coupling cord passes, but the end of one of theserollers is also terminated at the opposite end by a band wheel (Fig. l).At a convenient distance from the piece (F'Fig. 1) which forms a part ofthe bed of the frame work (sill piece) is placed parallel to it anothersill piece (Fl Fig. 1) of ther same lengthand the two connected at eachend by cross` pieces (one of which is seen at g Fig. 1) also restingVupon theV common platform. From the car end of this smaller platform (FF g Fig. l) springs an upright (K Fig. 1) which is connected at the topwith the main frame by a horizontal cross piece (m Fig. 1) and which isparallel to the cross pieces (o-ne of which is seen at g Fig. 1) at thebottom of the frame just described.

The uprights Gr and 'K Fig. 1 support,

Vby caps or otherwise near their upper end,

a horizontal shaft on which is fastened a large drum (3 Fig. 1) and onthe outer endv of the shaft projecting beyond the frame is a drivingdrum (20 Fig. l). Under the above shaft is another shaft resting in capsand on the sill pieces F F Fig. 1, of the frame. This lower shaft has onits inside end (and which end projects beyond ther sill pieces F F Fig.1 and between F andI F Fig. 1) la groove wheel (5 Fig. 1) which is fastto the shaft; next to this wheel 'and' between the sill pieces FF is adrum a Fig. 1 xed and fastened t-othe shaft;

adjoining this drum and at the middle of` groove wheel (7 Fig. 6) andwhich is fas-` tened to it; inside of this band wheel and between F FFig. 1 the short sill pieces, is another groove or band wheel (8 Fig. 1

and Fig. 6,) also fastened to the shaft, next to this band wheel and inthe middle of the same shaft is a wheel having cogs on its.

outer side v(asl Fig. 6) and whichcog wheel revolves with the shaft bycounter sinking Va key, lengthwise with the shaft (CZ Fig. 6), andhaving one edge of it to project above the shaft and a groove or mortisein the hub of the cog wheel (1 Fig. 6) to fitr it; then outside of thiswheel (1 Fig. 6) and towardy the sill piece, F Fig. l, isa groove orband wheel (11 Figs. l and 6) 'which revolves freely around the shaft;this groovewheel has a pin projecting horizon- .tally (as n Fig. 1) fromits inner surface j In rear of the main frame o-n a line with the crosspiece g Fig. 1 and springing from the sill pieces F F are two shortuprights R the upper ends of which have mortises in them, and theseupright-s support the shaft m of a reel which is between them and whichreel is immediately in rear lof the car. That end of the shaft m Fig. lof the reel which is toward the drums and wheels just described projectsbeyond its suplport and hasacatch wheel (as seen at aaFg. 7 fixed to itnear its end. Upon the end of the shaft m of the reel and out-side 4ofthis catch wheel a a, Fig. 7 is a band wheel n Figs. l and 7 whichrevolves freely around the shaft, on the innerV surface of this bandwheel n. Fig.7 is a catch (b Fig. 7 which is so placed (pointing to therear) that the wheel n revolves freely aroundthe shaft m toward theother end` of the track (in a forward direction of the car) but inareverse motion the catch?) comes in contact` Vwith the catch wheel aFig. 7 on the shaft of the reel and thus forces the reel to revolve withit.

Supported bythe main frameand projecting downward from itdir-ectly'under the rollers s s Fig. 1 are two wires y g/ Fig. 1 so bentas to form elbows at different distances, between two of which oppositeelbows is placed a small bar, Fig. 1 to which the end of the article tobe twisted is tied or catched as Fig. 5. These'wires y y Fig. 1 arecalled guides and the.bar a(L is placed in the lower elbows when thecaris to be run out and in the upperv elbows and close to the rollers .s'.5' Fig. 1 when the twisting is about to be commenced.

To put the whole in operation power is applied to the driving drum`20Fig. 1. This gives motion to the drum 3 Fig. 1 whichis coupled by a bandwith the drum 4. Figfl.

which passes around it and the wheel 2 Fig.1 at the other end of thetrack, both ends of which cord are fastened to an arm r Fig. 1projecting fro-m the front of the car. The groove wheel 8 Figs. 6 and 1is coupled with the groove wheel a Fig. 1 of the reel by an endless cordand as the catch, on the wheel 11 is toward the rear the wheel nrevolves freely with the forward motion of the Wheel 8 without catchingand consequently without moving the reel. There is an endless cord whichconnects the ydrum' 4, passing around a groove in its outer end, withthe rollers s s, by giving Va half twist to said cord and passing itaround the groove wheel on the end of one of the rollers. These rollersare coupled at their other ends by a cord endless passing around thegroove wheels at those ends. A Asmall loose roller c Fig. 3 is laid ontop of the rollers .S7V s, Figs. 1 and 3, keep the silk from paying outtoo fast from the bobbins.

The car having been run out thetwisting commences. This is done byshift-ing the band which is on thevdrum 3 Fig. 1 until it shall connectthe drums 3 and a/ Fig. 1. The bar a., Fig. l is now put into the upperelbow of the g/ y wire. The drum, af, being fastened to the shaft givesa motion to the groove wheel 5 Fig. 1 of that shaft and an endless.

cord is now passed around this wheel, 5, and thence under and around thewheel g on the arm of the oar and under and over the wheel p'Fig. 1 onthe shaft (c) of the car thence forward to wheel 1 of post E and thenceback'to 5. Motion is imparted to this shaft (c) and the endless cordspassing around this shaft c, and the wheels e c of the spindles, in theupper frame of the car, a mo-v tion is thus given to the spindles andthe material twisted. One thread is now cut from above the bar a Fig. 1and is tied or catched to the movable bar a; 1, which bar, a, is thenput into the reel. The band or cord which passes around the rollers g pof the car is now taken off and the car is run back by hand. The bandaround the drum 3 is removed from the drum o 'into that of c which has afree motion around the shaft and is unconnected with any thing, and thisremoval must take place before the car is run back by hand.Y This beingeffected you thenrun the car back and the cord from the car and passingaround the wheel 7 Fig. 6 gives motion to this wheel, the wheels 1 and11 being iirst uncoupled. The wheel 7 gives motion tothe wheel 8 and it,by means of the coupling band, tothe wheel, n, on the shaft of the reel.The motion of the wheel n being toward the rear the catch on the surfaceof the wheel fastens into the iiXed catch wheel` ,a Fig. 7.011 the shaftof the reel and the reel is thus made to revolve. n

The car is kept'steady in running out and returning by means of theyarrangement of cords underneath it as seen in F-ig. 8 which has beenalready described.

`The endless cord which 1s used for the twisting operation is around thewheel 5 Fig 1, the stationary wheel 1 of the post E Fig. 1, over andunder the wheel or drum p of the shaft c Fig. 1, thence over and underthe wheel g on the arm of the car thence to the wheel 5 Fig. 1. The cordby which n the car is run out passes from the car around the wheel 7thence forward around the wheel 2 of the post E and thence to the carwhere it is fastened. In machines in general use the threads are doubledby one machine then re` face, and a cog wheel on the shaft of the reel,f

connected by an endless band with a doubling and twisting machine fordoubling and twisting threads of any kind, the whole is combined as toenable you to double and twist and reel threads by the same machine,

which machine is combined and operates as is herein fully set forth.

FRANK CHENEY. Witnesses:

CHARLES WJOHNSON, NATHAN P. JOHNSON.

` [FIRST PRINTED 1913.]

